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My son Fred - living with autism : how could you manage? I couldn't. I did it anyway / Maud Deckmar ; translated by Ewa Wulkan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Deckmar, Maud, 1951-
- Standardized Title:
- Freds bok. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Autistic children--Sweden--Biography.
- Autistic children.
- Parents of autistic children--Sweden--Biography.
- Parents of autistic children.
- Deckmar, Fred.
- Deckmar, Maud, 1951-.
- Deckmar, Maud.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (191 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Maud Deckmar tells a touching and honest story of living with Fred, her eldest child, who has autism and an intellectual disability. She recounts here the great struggles and sorrows as well as the love and happiness she has experienced from his early childhood to adulthood.
- Contents:
- Unto us a child is born
- People around us
- Another baby - will I dare?
- "Just for today" is all I can handle
- As if he wasn't there
- Lights - camera - action
- Pre-school
- A few minutes of rest in borrowed peace and quiet, or, The difference between real solutions and makeshift ones
- School
- The children's home
- It has always been us needing the staff - they have never needed us
- Are you a bad person when you can't cope any longer?
- Moving to his own apartment
- The police report
- When a member of staff leaves - is it because he or she has died?
- He's started at the day centre, or, The tale of budget and reality
- To forgive yourself
- My fears right now
- Moving on.
- Notes:
- Translation of: Freds Bok : en mammas ber?attelse om n?ar livet v?ander. Tr?angsviken : Ord och Tanke, 1988.
- ISBN:
- 9786610261949
- 9781280261947
- 1280261943
- 9781846421150
- 1846421152
- OCLC:
- 61699101
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